Glossary
In this page, we have a collection of terms definitions that are used in the OLID-BR and Toxicity Detection project.
Kinds of Offensive Language#
Hate Speech#
A type of speech that is used to attack a group of people.1
Cyberbullying#
A type of speech that is used to attack an individual directly.1
Categories#
Health#
Hate speech based on health conditions, such as against disabled people.4
Ideology#
Hate speech based on a person's ideas, such as feminist or left wing ideology.4
Insult#
Insulting, inflammatory, or negative comment towards a person or a group of people.2
LGBTQphobia#
Negative or hateful comments targeting someone because of their gender identity, sexual orientation.2
Other-Lifestyle#
Hate speech based on life habits, such as vegetarian, vegan, etc.4
Physical aspects#
Hate speech based on physical aspects, such as fat, thin, tail or short people, etc.4
Profanity/Obscene#
Hateful comments with swear words, or other obscene or profane language.2
Racism#
Prejudiced thoughts and discriminatory actions based on difference in race/ethnicity.3
Religious intolerance#
Prejudiced thoughts and discriminatory actions based on the religion, cult or religious practice.4
Sexism#
Prejudiced thoughts and discriminatory actions based on difference in sex/gender, usually by men against women (a.k.a misogyny).3
Xenophobia#
The fear or hatred of foreigners.3
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Zampieri et al. "Predicting the type and target of offensive posts in social media." NAACL 2019. ↩↩
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"Perspective | Developers", Developers.perspectiveapi.com, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://developers.perspectiveapi.com/s/about-the-api-attributes-and-languages. [Accessed: 21- Aug- 2021] ↩↩↩
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Washington University - Student Affairs. (2020, August 12). Glossary of bias terms. Students. https://students.wustl.edu/glossary-bias-terms/. ↩↩↩
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Fortuna, Paula, et al. "A hierarchically-labeled portuguese hate speech dataset." Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Abusive Language Online. 2019. ↩↩↩↩↩